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<blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 4003047" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>We're getting into issues of personal morality here (but then, that's what half this thread and most alignment discussions, are), but I actually don't think that's a high standard at all. I personally believe that forsaking the self (which, for me, would mean things like not standing up for what you personally believe) is horribly easy and people do it on a daily basis. Similarly, I believe it's much easier (if significantly unhealthy) to make your body your slave and much more difficult and significantly more laudable to make mind and body work in perfect cohesion (though, admittedly, if they do have to diverge about anything my vote goes to the mind every time). And, to make it a trifecta, I think keeping oneself untarnished by the darkness one fights is easy, because all it requires is a little absence of thought and a belief that one is somehow better than and separate from the darkness. What takes real class, IMNSHO, is to truly understand the darkness, to see into the very heart and soul of it, to realize that it is as naturally a part of you as the light is, and to then choose the light.</p><p></p><p>Fighting evil and darkness without understanding is easy and not much more creditable than a dog fighting a cat, as far as I'm concerned. But to do it with complete and full understanding, now that's a high standard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shilsen, post: 4003047, member: 198"] We're getting into issues of personal morality here (but then, that's what half this thread and most alignment discussions, are), but I actually don't think that's a high standard at all. I personally believe that forsaking the self (which, for me, would mean things like not standing up for what you personally believe) is horribly easy and people do it on a daily basis. Similarly, I believe it's much easier (if significantly unhealthy) to make your body your slave and much more difficult and significantly more laudable to make mind and body work in perfect cohesion (though, admittedly, if they do have to diverge about anything my vote goes to the mind every time). And, to make it a trifecta, I think keeping oneself untarnished by the darkness one fights is easy, because all it requires is a little absence of thought and a belief that one is somehow better than and separate from the darkness. What takes real class, IMNSHO, is to truly understand the darkness, to see into the very heart and soul of it, to realize that it is as naturally a part of you as the light is, and to then choose the light. Fighting evil and darkness without understanding is easy and not much more creditable than a dog fighting a cat, as far as I'm concerned. But to do it with complete and full understanding, now that's a high standard. [/QUOTE]
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